Dazzling Design. Developer Delivered.

Beautiful design and rich user experiences are moving to the center of the development conversation. Your existing applications now must run on an array of mobile devices, like iPads, slates and mobile phones. Building applications designed for the device they’ll run on requires more focus than ever on great design principles. Apply sophisticated themes or create your own. Incorporate elegant Office- inspired or Windows 8 Metro-inspired controls into your design so your users can view and manipulate data in more insightful and compelling ways. And do it all on the platforms you know best. The design time visualization and Touch-enabled tools in DXperience 12.1 by DevExpress help you realize your vision.

Building solutions is made simple with the new application templates in DXperience 12.1. These templates provide a starting point for you to create new projects or expand current projects, by providing an initial project structure and then helps you to get started with defining your business logic and creating the interface with DevExpress UI controls. And, you can easily put the polish on your new application with one of the stunning DevExpress themes and easily apply it to the entire solution.

Right Platform. Right Design. Right Decision.

Building a modern business application starts by choosing the platform optimized for your target solution. With DXperienece 12.1 we’ve expanded the number of platforms that you can target and we help you get ready for the next wave of application development. We’ve made all of the tough design decisions for you. All of that makes your decision to partner with DevExpress a right decision.

Bridging Your Investments to Windows 8 Metro

One of the most exciting developments for end users and developers alike is the new Windows 8 Metro environment. This environment enables end users to quickly see critical information at a glance, dynamically displayed within the new “tile” design metaphor that also launches the app. While the mouse and keyboard are supported for the classic view, the new Metro design is very focused on enabling touch as the primary input mechanism for consumers. Tools in DXperience 12.1 provide the bridge from your existing investments in Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight to future platforms like Windows Metro.

Bridging Your Investments to iOS

The focus of Apple’s iPad and iPhone platform to business developers has never been more important than it is in today’s environment. Enabling remote workers access to critical business applications on an iPad is one of the most common requests we’re hearing from our customers. But this new platform also brings challenges. How do you build compelling applications for iOS with the skills you have today? How do you implement a new mobile strategy with a fixed set of resources. More than ever developers are looking to 3rd party tools like DXperience 12.1 to help them accomplish these tasks. Today.

Touch

Touch-enabled application development requires developers to re-think the future of application design and user experiences. Whether you’re a Windows Forms developer building client applications or a Web developer building for mobile platforms, DXperience 12.1 helps you take on these new challenges using your existing skills and tools.

One great example of touch support is the new touch supported docking panels in DXperience 12.1. With these controls, developers can build solutions that work across mobile platforms as well as traditional web environments. All of the tools and components in the DXperience 12.1 Enterprise suite are ready to support the next generation of Touch applications, across Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight.

Quality Code. Smaller Apps. Tested.

Building great user experiences requires attention to every detail and an integrated testing plan. When combining a testing framework with 3rd party controls, you want to avoid low-level testing that simply records mouse movements in pixel coordinates. There are so many things that can go wrong in this scenario – a control has moved to a new position, a new item has been added to the list, and so on. We’ve introduced Coded UI support in our controls and in concert with Microsoft’s Test Manager, you can now automate your user experience testing.